Consulting & Expert Witness ExperienceTechnical Consulting: Assist clients in the design and development of Mechanical, Mechatronic and computer controlled products and systems. Apply expert knowledge of Automation and Robotics technologies to help clients utilize those technologies effectively. Provide integration skills to recognize and utilize the synergies among technologies of diverse engineering disciplines.Intellectual Property Consulting: Participate in brainstorming sessions to generate creative new ideas for clients in developing new products. Help clients recognize new inventions and assess their economic and competitive protection worthiness, also avoid the expense of marginal, though patentable, inventions. Through periodic reviews with clients, identify new inventions and initiate timely patent applications for protection of emerging intellectual property especially for foreign filing. Work closely with the patent attorneys of clients to provide expert technical insight into new inventions, strengthen patent claims and help avoid loopholes for work-around possibilities that often results in expanding the scope of the invention, removing undue limitations from the claims, adding new matter into the specifications and generating new claims; rights for the new inventions are usually assigned to the clients. Review pending product releases and their underlying technologies against prior art to assure non-infringement; and if sued, have credible material for a strong defense. Analyze competing products, identify potential infringement issues and support clients in their law suits.Expert Witness Consulting:Provide Expert Witness services to clients in defensive and offensive Intellectual Property litigation.Work with prosecuting attorneys to analyze patent claims, identify relevant prior art, read claims on prior art products and inventions and develop the technical content for clients defensive or offensive arguments.Stand on clients' side. if necessary, for depositions with solid argument and credible presence and represent the client's position with expert testimony if called upon during trial.

Examples:ITC Case: Acted as Witness at trial for the Plaintiff supporting the validity of the Plaintiff's patent in a patent infringement law suit, the Judge ruled the claims valid and enforceable.Florida, Middle District Court Case: Acted as Expert Witness for the defendant in a patent infringement law suit, supporting the defendant's manufacturing system against a process patent; developed argument for invalidity based on claim construction and lack of support in the patent specifications; surveyed and studied relevant prior art and prepared argument for invalidity; clearly outlined material differences between the accused system and the patent claims; supported the client's Attorney in deposition of witnesses; scrutinized witnesses' background for weaknesses and for follow-up questions; reviewed the plaintiff's arguments and developed response material. The case was withdrawn by the plaintiff and the client was fully vindicated.